Swedish letters to Oxenstierna, June 1633

These letters were filed on this site until 14 October 2026 with ten other Riksarkivet records of catalogue item 207. They are different ciphers, each with its own page: the archbishop of Bremen’s letters of 1631 (deciphered), R4282 (deciphered by George Lasry), R4284, R4306 (deciphered in part by George Lasry) and Rusdorff’s letters of 1628.

01The letters

The first letter, headed “8/18 Juni 1633” and foliated 20, seems from its clear words to deal with money, contributions and garrisons (Berlin, Hamburg and Wolgast are named in clear); it has not been studied closely. The code numbers stand mostly for names and places, and the glosses of the time cover part of them. DECODE’s date of 1646 is wrong for these leaves.

The archive’s list of keys names one for “Oxenstierna and Lars Nilsson Tungel (1633)”. Tungel was a Swedish diplomat in Germany in these years and is a candidate for the writer, but that is not checked, and the key was not among the seventy key records fetched from the same boxes.

02What remains

• The code groups of all four letters. They have not been transcribed.
• To do: transcribe the letters with their glosses and rebuild the code from the glossed groups; identify the writer; search the printed correspondence (Rikskanslern Axel Oxenstiernas skrifter och brefvexling, series II).

03Sources

• Riksarkivet, Stockholm, Oxenstiernska samlingen E 708: DECODE R4338, R4339, R4340, R4341.

Notes: targets/oxenstierna1633/.